It may sound boring and unoriginal to most people, but I still adore gift cards…to Amazon.com since you can find almost anything there…for myself or as gifts to others. They are the PERFECT giveaway! jdh2690 at gmail dot com

A charm for my Charmed Memories/Pandora Charm Bracelet, they have a book one I’ve seen.
Gift cards to Amazon.
A trip to the location/setting of a great book ie. A trip to where Nicholas Sparks latest book took place, or a trip to the beach period.

My dream prize would be an iPad mini since I had one and I was in love with it, and used it for everything, for school and work and was planning on using it at Comic-Con but it was stolen on a plane two days ago. I was devastated. Winning an iPad mini would be a dream come true and a life-saver.

I adore Young Adult, New Adult, Paranormal Romance, and Adventure/Action books.
My dream prize? Honestly I’m more in favor of the Amazon Gift Certificates, because I can use those for books, or other stuff. 🙂

My dream prize would be a trip for my daughter and I because she is old enough now to appreciate and remember it! The iPad mini is amazing though because her tablet recently broke and seeing she is pulling off A’s in school I would love to give it to her for a great report card <3. Thank you all again for doing this!!

I have a lot of non-viable dream prizes, but at the present time the best viable one that I can think of is an Amazon card large enough to pay for a semester’s worth of textbooks for my daughter. We like to buy them through Amazon, since they are almost always cheaper, but cannot sometimes, since the money isn’t available, and her grants don’t come until a month after school starts.

I think all of the things you have listed above sound good. I really like gift cards to Amazon and Barnes and Noble and a laptop would be nice also. If I can get it, I would like the book Nothing Stays in Vegas by Elena Aitken.

My dream prize would be… A motorized wheelchair… Sounds silly I know. But I’d really like one. It could change my life and it’s totally practical for me. I’m not interested in big holidays or thousands of pounds. Would love just this one thing, because that could change my life for many years to come. I’d be able to go out again (once I get over my Agoraphobia), I’d be able to use it to get around in my own home. That, to me, is my perfect prize… We can but dream ey?

As for a viable option… I’d say things like tablets are great to go for. It’s not brand specific when it comes to reading ebooks especially, where as a Kindle is Kindle specific, Nook for Nook and so on. At least with tablets, like the iPad mini, you can use them for everything.

Other giveaways people are interested in is Gift Cards, especially for places like Amazon. Because they can use them for not only books, but many things.

There are signed swag giveaways, signed merchandise is amazing and seems to go down really well with participants. You can have signed merchandise for books, author specific merchandise, even movies or tv programs that are based on books. For example an Author could sign a movie poster and so on.

Offering up an advertising space on your site is always something that a lot of people will be interested in. Likewise advertising space in your magazine. All sorts of people with book related things could enter for those so it’d really open up the overall “reach” of the promo.

Just a few ideas. I’ll have a think and see if I can come up with something else…

My dream prize is a Macbook ’cause I’ve been wanting to get into design and it’s the computer of choice of many graphic designers I know. 😛 Since Macs are a bit expensive next on my list is an iPad (or iPad mini) because it’s great for storing ebooks of all formats and for net browsing, etc. I already have an iPad but I would love one for my sister.

Thanks for everything you do now! you guys are awesome! My dream prize would be an all expenses paid vacate, however, I love the prizes you give away now. reading gadgets and gift cards. So my recommendation would be offer more of them.

“Black Jasmine” by Toby Neal would be one of my ebook selections. “Shadow Cay” and “Don’t Know Jack are two others that look interesting. An iPad mini would be fun to have or gift card. My genre of choice is romantic suspense with an occasional more hard core thriller/mystery.

Amazon Gift Cards are great, because I can use them for everything. Apple products and e-readers are dream prizes (I’m dying to try a Nook). And gift cards to Barnes and Noble are great also.
Gift cards to fancy hotels are dream prizes as well.

A laptop would be great, preloaded with whichever program is best for writing so I don’t have to sit at the family computer (which is in the living room) to finish writing my book. (Well, you asked.) Short of that, Amazon gift cards in larger denominatons would go over nicely.

I don’t think you can go amiss with an iPad mini or an Amazon gift card (especially with this particular audience), but other things that come to mind are kitchen appliances (KitchenAid, BlendTec blender, etc.) or something that people talk about getting to improve themselves but never seem to find the money or time for–Rosetta Stone, perhaps?

Well being the total book nerd that I am – I’d love to meet one of my favorite authors. Most don’t come to Wisconsin so a trip to one of their meet and greets with the opportunity to get a autographed copy of their book would be a thrill.

Since this is about books…why not books? Some new Indie author books? Heck, I would be tickled to open an email that said “Gracey, here are (enter quantity here) ebooks or books coming out soon, have a first read!”

Wow, what a great question! I think anything from a $5 GC to electronics, to a trip would be amazing! I think my ultimate prize to win would be an all expense paid trip…to anywhere! Even for a weekend! Although, I have to admit, this giveaway for an iPad is way awesome!!!! I can only imagine winning!

My dream prize would be a water tank with a small hot water heater and a new addition to the cabin so I could have a place to bathe at the cabin and do my dishes without heating it on the stove! (Alaska dry cabin) barring that, an iPad or a Macbook Pro

Well I’m looking into an ipad at the moment, so I’d be pretty happy with this prize!! I’d love to have a kitchen refurb for our new little house, or a day package at a favourite nearby spa for my lovely mother, who deserves one of these treats!

Our dream prize would be an Amazon gift card so I could pre-order the new titles that our elementary library students are requesting. It would bring them so much joy to have the latest books in their favorite series.

I like the idea of a gift basket or surprise box with GC’s, chocolate, books, swag, etc. My unatainable dream prize would be a cruise around the world before I die. Thank you for the very generous giveaway!

My dream prize would be a trip to Las Vegas, I so need to get away, since getting a tad better healthwise, I have wanted to get out and travel instead of staring at these four walls but I haven’t achieved that goal yet, financially things suck…LOL so bring on Vegas Bayyyybeeeeeee!!! LOL 🙂

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